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Cultural Diversity as a Learning Tool in Youth Work

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2016-3-UK01-KA205-035140
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for youth Funder Contribution: 93,900 EUR

Cultural Diversity as a Learning Tool in Youth Work

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The increased levels of migration within the EU coupled with the arrival of migrant, refugees and asylum seekers from outside the EU has added ever increasing importance for citizens to be active, inclusive, open and understanding in their daily lives. Recognising and valuing cultural diversity is important in ensuring that there is harmony within communities in all EU Member States. Young people play an important part in shaping our future society and in their work NGOs and more specifically youth workers can provide experiences and insights to help young people to develop positive opinions relating to culture. The valuable role cultural diversity plays in community cohesion is recognised by the Council of Europe and institutions at local, regional and national level across the EU. In this project we were adding value to the debate and providing partners with new skills and knowledge to equip youth workers to support young people in their developing healthy and positive opinions. The project comprises five partners from Italy, Latvia, Slovenia, Spain and UK who are active in the field of young persons mobility and promoting cultural diversity within their locality. All have expertise to share and equally recognise the importance of learning from their peers across the EU to improve their knowledge and skills. As a Sharing Good Practice project each partner will hosted a short-term joint staff training event attended by two representatives from all partners and two partners will hosted Blended Mobility of Young People events for all partners to attend. This provided over 2 years a platform to identify and assess current good practice and debate new ideas and strategies to improve the quality of youth work in the field of cultural diversity. We 40 short-term joint staff training event mobilities and 16 Blended Mobility of Young People, which was a valuable opportunity to broaden horizons and inspire participants in their work with young people. We created an active social media group to enable participants to exchange ideas and have a support platform to contribute to their ongoing professional development. The project has a strong commitment to ensuring outcomes are actively disseminated so all organisations can draw on our results to improve how they can use cultural diversity as a tool in engaging young people. We produced a Good Practice Guide drawing on current partner work and the new ideas developed through the programme of co-operation. The Guide included written material, videos led by young people. We researched existing diversity training and look to create a new approach and ideas, rather than just replicate what is already available. We disseminated through partner websites, social media, events attended and their extensive European Project networks, with the aim of contributing to the research and development of future policy in this field. The longer term benefit of the project is to equip youth workers with a suite of new ideas to enable young people to value and have positive opinions relating to cultural diversity. Open minds are an important part of a healthy society and we will add to the partner skills to play their role in creating these outcomes for their communities. Combining staff / volunteers and young people as participants in the journey will also enable a wider audience benefiting from the sharing of good practice which will feed into the resources available to make a positive sustainable difference to the outlook and opinions of young people. Additional and very key future benefit related to active ongoing co-operation between partners to develop the content and outcomes of this project for the benefit of young people.

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